Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

Percy Jackson and the Lightning thief By Rick Riordan The novel starts with a 12-year-old boy named Percy Jackson, a boarding student who suffered from dyslexia and ADHD at Yancy academy, which is a private school for troubled kids. He narrates about his life and how he transferred from school to school due to the bad things that happened in each school he attended, but not until this field trip at a museum, he discovered things he never knew existed. Percy Jackson and the Lighting thief is a…

Wallace 1 Julia Wallace Professor Ann-Marie Boylan English 3B 25 November 2014 The Once and Future King Project: Part I Book I - The Sword in the Stone: Merlyn Throughout Book I, I am Wart’s tutor. I am magician who lives backward in time, therefore I already know what is going to happen. As Wart’s tutor, I turn him into several different animals: a fish, a merlin, a ant, a owl, a goose, and a badger. I turn him into these specific animals to teach him lessons. When I turn Wart into a fish, I…

Young Adult fiction has always been enriched with ancient myths, folklore and legends. This can be seen from The Chronicles of Narnia to Harry Potter. By using myths and alluding to ancient sources in Young Adult fiction this has normally guaranteed these books to be a success. The main books which will be focused on in this dissertation are the Harry Potter books by J.K. Rowling, The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins and His Dark Materials by Philip Pullman. All of these books, according to the…

can be. She then demands to talk to the Elizabeth and again could not be ruder to her. She basically tells her not to marry Mr. Darcy and how she does not deserve to anyways. Insulting her and her family even more along the way. In the book she does fire right back at her saying, “to act in that manner, which will, in my own opinion, constitute my happiness, without reference to you, or to any person so wholly unconnected with me” (Austen 351). In the movie she keeps her calm but does not seem…

best known for her seven-book Harry Potter fantasy series. After the first fantasy novel, Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone became a global hit in 1999, Rowling became an international literary sensation when the first three parts of Harry Potter took over the top three slots of The New York Times best-seller list after achieving a similar success in her native country. Being sold in more than 500 million copies worldwide and winning multiple awards, the Harry Potter series, so far, is…

SIRIUS BLACK: A VENGEFUL VICTIM OR A FATHER FIGURE? Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban is a best-selling children’s book which has been adapted into a film with the same title. The story gives a further look into Harry’s past. One of the key characters in it is Sirius Black, Harry’s godfather who was imprisoned for twelve years in Azkaban before he escaped. He was a close friend of the Potters, who went to a hideout because they were being hunted by Voldemort. He was thought to be their…

What Exactly are Mortgage Overlays? Lender Guidelines Revealed! Lender's Mortgage Overlays in a Nutshell A popular line from the old movie "The Wizard of Oz" involves the character Oz shouting "pay no attention to the man behind the curtain!" The little guy behind-the-scenes was attempting to shield his image as a strong, powerful leader. From this motion picture, scene created the expression "let's draw back the curtains," meaning, "let's see precisely what form of work happens when…

Anthony Burgess’s A Clockwork Orange is well discussed in the fourth chapter. Anthony Burgess, the British novelist is considered to be one of the newest and most talented of the younger British writers. Many critics have rated his novel A Clockwork Orange as one of Burgess' most brilliant achievements. The ability of an individual to make moral choices is the major theme of A Clockwork Orange. The society presented by Burgess deals with experiments and behaviour modification techniques on…

“The Tale of Three Brothers” was first introduced in Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, the seventh and last book in the Harry Potter series written by J.K. Rowling. In the story arc, one of the main character, Hermione Granger, narrates the story from her copy of The Tales of Beedle the Bard. These tales were commonly read to children as bedtimes stories because they’re “told to amuse rather than instruct” (Rowling 409). “The Three of Three Brothers” relates how three brothers cheated Death…

Samika Sharma Kanika Dang English 3rd November,2015 PAM AYRES AND HER JOVIAL POEMS Pam Ayres, an English poet, comedian, songwriter and presenter of radio and television programmes, was born on 14th March, 1947 at Stanford in Vale, Berkshire and currently in Oxfordshire. After leaving Faringdon Secondary School at the age of 15, she joined the Civil Service as a clerical assistant and worked at the Army (RAOC) Central Ordnance Depot in Bicester. She soon left and signed up for the Women's Royal…